marionnet

how to get a FIXED ocaml ?!

Asked by aubert

Bonjour,

 In our favorite distrib. i.e Debian, we have a
libocamlbricks-ocaml-dev 0.5.1-4+b4 (Sid)
                                                   b2 Stable
and also an ocaml 3.12.0_7 and family

should I run one of these to avoid the "well known bug" with ocaml 11 :

File "chip/chip_parser_p4.ml", line 52, characters 69-72:
While expanding quotation "ctyp" in a position of "expr":
  Parse error: EOI expected after [quotation of type] (in [quotation of type])

which I get by running "compil from sources"

or :

//tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/camlasm90384d.s: Assembler messages:
//tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/camlasm90384d.s: Error: .size expression for camlRandom__rawfloat_126 does not evaluate to a constant
File "random.ml", line 1, characters 0-1:
Error: Assembler error, input left in file //tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/camlasm90384d.s
make[3]: *** [random.cmx] Erreur 2
make[3]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/ocaml-3.11.2/stdlib »
make[2]: *** [libraryopt] Erreur 2
make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/ocaml-3.11.2 »
make[1]: *** [opt-core] Erreur 2
make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/ocaml-3.11.2 »
make: *** [world.opt] Erreur 2
cp: impossible d'évaluer « tools/objinfo »: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

which I get from running marionnet_from_scratch
(where I had to add "à la main" libxft-dev since it's buggy from Lenny on and I have apt-listbugs installed)

Would you please tell me where-what to change to get to have Marionnet ;)
since although I installed recent ocalm things, Marionnet seems to stick to 11
I'm not a coder, but a 6 years long Debian user, I think I could manage...

Hw&sw :

I checked the ia32-libs family were ok, before and after : ok nothing broken
or should I chroot32 ?

-Computer-
Processor : 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2061MB (264MB used)
Operating System : Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid x86_64
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV530
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation

Thank you for your kind attention

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Luca Saiu (saiu) said : 		#1

Hello. Unfortunately the ocamlbricks version packaged in Debian is very old and incompatible with a recent Marionnet.

I think I remember this problem:

//tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/camlasm90384d.s: Assembler messages:
//tmp/marionnet_from_scratch.ehB2ju8X/camlasm90384d.s: Error: .size expression for camlRandom__rawfloat_126 does not evaluate to a constant

Was it a compiler bug? I don't remember for sure and we don't have any lenny machines any longer, but I think I remember the thing went away by using a more recent ocaml compiler (still in the 3.11 family). Have you tried to explicitly rebuild ocaml when using marionnet_from_scratch? The script should allow it; try running it with the option --help to discover how.

Please write us again if you find any problem. Lenny is getting old, but we would like to keep it working if possible.

Thanks,

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aubert (meamedia) said : 		#2

Hi Luca,

thank you for answering-

It is not Lenny that I use, but Sid/Wheezy, with update every morning :)

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kadee (grazingcows) said : 		#3

Hi,

It is not very becoming not to support your own software, professor.

I was trying to build Marionnet on Debian Wheezy/Sid with Ocaml 4.00 and have had a similar experience. The suggestion to use the latest OCaml version did not work with the script. I used marionnet_from_scratch.sh versio 0.90.13 and successfully build with the godi option: './marionnet_from_scratch.sh -g'.

With kind regards,

Rajiv Singh

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Luca Saiu (saiu) said : 		#4

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Le jour 2012-09-27 à 22h01, kadee a écrit :

> It is not very becoming not to support your own software, professor.

Mr Singh, maybe you do not understand that Marionnet is a volunteer
project. Nobody is currently paid to work on Marionnet, and its
contributors have a full-time job as well. Jean-Vincent is actually
working a lot on Marionnet these days, and has recently committed
several nice improvements. Given his work constraints, he's doing a
lot: please do not alienate him just because he can't do *everything* at
once.

>I was trying to build Marionnet on Debian Wheezy/Sid with Ocaml 4.00 and
>have had a similar experience. The suggestion to use the latest OCaml
>version did not work with the script. I used marionnet_from_scratch.sh
>versio 0.90.13 and successfully build with the godi option:
>'./marionnet_from_scratch.sh -g'.

Thanks, this information is useful.

Regards,

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Luca Saiu
Home page: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~saiu
GNU epsilon: http://www.gnu.org/software/epsilon
Marionnet: http://www.marionnet.org
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